Experts from around the country will be holding virtual town halls this week and in the weeks ahead to try and clear up any questions people may have. "We feel if there can be more of a give and take, there can be live question and answer sessions, the public will feel better about the answers they're getting," said Dr. Daniel Engel, a professor at the University of Virginia who helped organize the town halls.
If you have questions about getting the COVID-19 vaccine you now have a chance to connect with more than 50 experts from across the United States. The experts, including several from the University of Virginia, will participate in the event called COVID-19 Vaccine Education.
Several regional COVID-19 business grant and assistance programs have exhausted their funding, but it’s worth checking to see if new rounds become available. The Virginia 30 Day Fund is still taking applications for up to $3,000 for Virginia small businesses that employ between three and 30 people. Applicants fill out an online form and submit a short video about the business and its employees. The private sector-backed nonprofit taps volunteers from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for help in the approval process.
The University of Virginia is re-evaluating Final Exercises plans after Gov. Ralph Northam announced revised COVID-19 restrictions related to graduations last Wednesday. The changes allow outdoor ceremonies to be capped at 5,000 people and indoor ceremonies can have up to 500 people.
CognitiveEMS, developed by University of Virginia researchers, provides prompts to support responders' decision-making.
(Commentary by Steven Gillon, senior faculty fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) GOP leaders and the conservative media ecosystem have spent the last few weeks focused on inflaming the culture wars. They’ve railed against the decision to stop publishing six Dr. Seuss books, falsely claiming that the childhood classics have fallen victim to liberal cancel culture, and complained about changes to the Potato Head line of toys.
U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to serve as the 14th NASA administrator. Nelson, a graduate of Yale and UVA, represented Florida from 2001 to 2019 where he served as a ranking member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
It’s not often that the path to becoming an artist is kick-started by a dog-sitting gig. But the part-time job Alanna Rivera picked up in 2012 while studying literature and Spanish at UVA was just what she needed to remind her of how much she loved painting. The Arlington painter specializes in portraits of families, pets, home exteriors and more.
A new study from the American Society of Criminology finds U.S. counties with large Protestant fundamentalist populations, greater support for Republican presidential candidates and unstable local economies are more likely to impose death sentences. The research used a data project from the UVA School of Law.
[Darden alumna] Jacqueline Grace is breaking barriers as the senior vice president and general manager of Tropicana Atlantic City. And the advice she gives to others: Just do it.
The palm walk inside Tropicana Atlantic City was bustling on a recent Saturday afternoon as guests wandered about looking for the front desk, a place to eat, or their next big win. Standing beneath the walk’s palm trees at the intersection that leads to an abundance of gaming opportunities or to The Quarter, the properties inside the mall area, stood [Darden alumna] Jacqueline Grace. A mask covered her infectious smile but her body language portrayed her as happy as she moved to the music that intermixed with the noise of slot machines, the cheerful screams of winning gamblers and the groans o...
(Commentary) On Nov. 3, nearly two-thirds of Virginia’s voters approved a major change in the way the state redraws legislative and congressional districts, slaying the gerrymander in favor of a bipartisan commission to handle redistricting. Eight years ago, such a political reform was considered hardly possible in Virginia. Conventional wisdom insisted that no majority party in the General Assembly would give up the power to draw their own district lines for their own partisan advantage. But Leigh B. Middleditch Jr., a respected Charlottesville lawyer, saw the chance to build a movement that ...
“I think most of Golden’s colleagues will understand that, of all the House Democrats, he is one of the most in need of a hall pass, so to speak, to vote against leadership from time to time,” says Kyle Kondik who tracks Congress at UVA’s Center for Politics and points out that Golden now holds the most Republican district of any House Democrat in the country.
There are many who have written off the board’s utility, seeing it as a fantasy of corporate self-regulation. “It will have no authority over advertising or the massive surveillance that makes Facebook ads so valuable,” Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia, wrote in Wired last May. “It won’t curb disinformation campaigns or dangerous conspiracies. It has no influence on the sorts of harassment that regularly occur on Facebook or (Facebook-owned) WhatsApp. It won’t dictate policy for Facebook Groups, where much of the most dangerous content thrives. And mo...
Dr. Lorna Breen died by suicide in April 2020. She was a sister, a “cool aunt” to her eight nieces and nephews, and an emergency room director at New York Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan. “She was always helping people, and jumped into action whenever she could,” said Corey Feist, Dr. Breen’s brother-in-law and chief executive officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group.
A University of Virginia psychologist says individuals experiencing ‘pandemic fatigue,’ where they become irritable due to restrictions associated with the pandemic, now have something to look forward to as the weather gets warmer. Nicole Ruzek, director of UVA Counseling & Psychological Services, says meeting friends or family outdoors can have a lasting impact on your well-being to recharge and stay vigilant.
Last year, ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, Claudia W. Allen, a clinical psychologist and the director of the Family Stress Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, told The New York Times that if there are differences of opinion, it’s important not to pass judgment, start lecturing or assume that your relatives have bad motives. “The people who are willing to take more risks are usually doing it because they’re valuing connection. And the people who are less willing to take risks are usually less willing because they are prioritizing safety. Connection and safety are both go...
A Lynchburg man needed a new liver before he could undergo what his doctors called a life-saving heart surgery. Benny Nash had been battling an aggressive liver disease, called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, for the past four years. His doctors then discovered an issue with his heart valve, which needed more immediate attention. In order to perform the surgery on his heart, Benny's doctors at the UVA Health’s Transplant Center said he needed to have a liver transplant.
That brings this story to September 2020: Child Cancer Awareness Month. It was a chance for Luke Post to do exactly what he’s always wanted to do: help others, even though he’s the one undergoing treatment. It all started with a shirt.
That brings this story to September 2020: Child Cancer Awareness Month. It was a chance for Luke Post to do exactly what he’s always wanted to do: help others, even though he’s the one undergoing treatment. It all started with a shirt.